The Three Button Trick : Selected Stories

The Three Button Trick: Selected stories

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The best short stories from perhaps Englands finest young female comic writer. This selection of Nicola Barkers finest short stories contains work first published in Heading Inland and Love Your Enemies. A sixteen-year-old girl, in Laylas Nose Job, is burdened with a grotesque nose. But plastic surgery only serves to demonstrate that her strangeness isnt just skin-deep. The discovery turns her ingeniously violent. In Inside Information, Martha, a professional shoplifter, becomes pregnant and attempts to turn her pregnancy to criminal advantage, only to find herself harassed by her foetus, which can not only talk but proves to have grisly plans of its own. In three related pieces (Blisters, Braces, and Mr. Lippy) featuring Wesley, a charming but damaged young man, attempts at normality are grimly, inevitably defeated. In The Three Button Trick, one of Barkers most naturalistic, a middle-aged woman, whos been abandoned by her husband, discovers, thanks to the ministrations of several odd acquaintances, how little she needs him and how wayward and liberating true eroticism is. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Nº de ref. del artículo: GOR001240371

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